On Tuesday 15 September 2020 04:37:55 E. Liddell via tde-users wrote: > On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 18:36:39 -0700 > > "William Morder via trinity-users" <trinity-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Monday 14 September 2020 18:22:35 E. Liddell wrote: > > > On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 08:01:40 -0700 > > > > > > William Morder via tde-users <ml-migration-agent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On a side note, I wonder if we could get a proper, working, > > > > up-to-date version of icecat into the repositories somewhere (as it > > > > has disappeared from Trisquel and others). > > > > > > Why? It's just a rebrand of Firefox with a few trivial patches, as far > > > as I know. If you find Firefox itself unsatisfactory, try one of the > > > other forks/cousins from the Mozilla family (Pale Moon, Waterfox, or > > > Seamonkey). > > > > Not so! True, it does look pretty much the same, and to the untrained > > eye, they are about equal. After having used a lot of Mozilla browsers, I > > can tell you for sure that Icecat offers some major differences. > > They say right out on their own site: > > "IceCat is generated from Firefox with the scripts available in the Git > repository of GNUzilla." > > Ergo, Firefox with some patches and possibly bundled extensions. Most > distros without Debian ancestry don't even package it. > I don't argue that point. What I mean is, those little differences make all the difference. You don't need to believe or disbelieve me; check it out for yourself, by watching your network traffic, by watching the requests made by your browser, just because you click on a tab or scroll through a page. > E. Liddell > Some years ago, I got into a dispute with somebody who refused to believe that using javascript would reveal all your system information. The large social network that he was using required javascript, as a new policy. As I said then, you don't need to believe me, just use an IP checker page. Same thing here: If you don't believe me, then just try what I say, and you might change your mind, or at least decide that I am not totally bonkers. No matter. If you are content with what you have, then shine on. Bill _______________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
